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Besides death (if the state continues allowing it) and ever-increasing taxes, there are two other certainties we can all count on under President Obama.

The first is that he will speak calmly and reasonably about the need to listen to and consider all points of view when making judicial and executive decisions as he appoints one or more far-left judicially activist jurists to the nation's highest court.

The other is that the same media that poured ink and breath into portraying Justices Roberts and Alito as far-right neocon reactionaries (when each man's only "sin" was to be an originalist who still believed in adhering to our nation's Constitution when deciding Supreme Court cases) will waste no less time or energy claiming that Obama's selection(s), however far left they may be, are moderate representations of mainstream America.

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